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...bomber. Troops in red tunics and white helmets presented arms. A band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Four years ago the same man had visited Brazil as a private citizen. Now Colonel Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, came as a comrade in arms. He lunched with President Getulio Vargas, banqueted with Brazil's top fighting men, visited war plants and strategic airfields...
...made him an honorary brigadier general (TIME, Sept. 7), was wildly popular among the Argentines. It embarrassed President Castillo as Teddy Roosevelt once embarrassed neutral Woodrow Wilson by proposing to fight for Belgium. This week General Justo flew to Rio in the private plane of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas as guest of honor for the Brazilian national holiday. At Santos Dumont Airfield he got a roaring welcome from 30,000 Brazilians. All this raised General Justo's chances of succeeding President Castillo in 1943. President Castillo was particularly galled because last July he himself had said...
...States has been a tradition of Brazil's foreign policy for many years. In the first World War, Brazil was the only large Latin American state to follow the United States in declaring war on Germany. Harking feels that the fact that Brazil lives under a presidential dictatorship of Getulio Vargas which is of the most personal sort, lends additional interest to the stand she has taken against the dictatorships of Europe...
Appearing in public for the first time since his automobile accident last spring, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas promised: "Brazil will defend her waters, will man her coasts." He tried to quiet the people with announcements that U.S. and Brazilian flyers had sunk seven Axis submarines, that German diplomats had been seized as hostages for Brazilians held by the Nazis, that Axis nationals in Brazil had been warned they might be shipped off to labor camps...
...People Growled. Obviously Getulio Vargas had qualms about departing from his policy of militant defense. And he may have had good reasons: Axis submarines might have concentrated on Brazilian ships intentionally to provoke war and thus to draw bigger U.S. forces into the South Atlantic; Axis strategists might be trying to cut communications between Brazil's vulnerable hump and the south, preparatory to an attack from Dakar...